Celsus Stidolph lived without love for many years, working as an Alchemist on Merlon Isle while living a precarious life as a double agent, working for the light while convincing the Necromancer of his continued loyalty to the dark.After a tempestuous courtship and much heartbreak on both sides, Celsus and sorceress Ella are adjusting to married life with their new daughter.His Turmoil now removed, Ella’s love has redeemed him and she loves him unconditionally. As they settle down to their new life together, Celsus deems it time to tell her everything that made him the man he is; his childhood, his time as a Myrmidon, his spying on di Deuterio for Lord Merlon… and, not least, the full extent of his involvement in the deaths of her family.Ella had thought she knew everything, so will she be able to come to terms with her discovery of who and what he really was?